Information on personality, on anxiety and depression and on several aspects of religion was collected in 1974 Dutch families consisting of adolescent and young adult twins and their parents. Analyses of these data showed that differences between individuals in religious upbringing, in religious affiliation and in participation in church activities are not influenced by genetic factors. The fam...

T he need and the necessity to represent the natural process of birth by means of a symbolic action and to organize it ritually as a cultural process of constructing personhood are inherent to all human groups, which have always sought to transmit their collective experience through their cultural system as a whole. The very continuity of the community depends on these events in which social or...

The potential association between sibship characteristics and the risk of schizophrenia has been investigated previously. However, methods have differed and results have been conflicting. The authors explored the association between birth order, sibship size, and birth interval to siblings and schizophrenia while accounting for potential confounders. Using Danish Civil Registration System data,...

This study examined the influence of parents' subjective well-being on their parenting concepts, and mediating role rumination. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 784 parents primary school students using Subjective Well-Being Scale, Parenting Concept Scale Rumination Scale. The results are as follows: (1) Parents' significantly negatively predicted unreasonable concepts; (2) rumination...

Mortality records of 8,642 lambs from a composite population at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center during the first year of life were studied using discrete survival analyses. Lamb mortality was studied across periods from birth to weaning, birth to 365 d of age, and weaning to 365 d of age. Animal-time data sets were created for each period using different time intervals: daily, weekly, fort...

BACKGROUND The mechanism underlying the association between urban birth/upbringing and increased schizophrenia risk is unknown. This study explored whether an urban effect might be present in a low-income country setting, where the ;urban' environment may have radically different components, for example urban architecture, pollution levels or social cohesion. AIMS To investigate the potential...

In this paper, we aimed to assess cross-sectionally and longitudinally associations between disturbances in maternal early attachment experiences, symptoms of separation anxiety and depression and oxytocin plasma levels. We examined a mediational model that tested the hypothesis that anxious attachment style arising from the mothers' early bonding experiences with her own parents was associated...

This study has proven that the economic system is determined by various components, in particular, it includes real sector of economy, which formed on mega-, macro, meso-, micro-and nano-levels. In addition, was proved nano-level activities individuals whose activity begins with birth and attitude parents, attending educational upbringing institutions, studying at university. A separate segment...

patients and methods in this retrospective, cross-sectional study, the medical records of all deceased neonates hospitalized in fatemieh hospital of hamadan, during a 5-year period (2006 – 2011) were extracted. a questionnaire including sex, weight, gestational age, time of birth, delivery mode, maternal disease, and leading cause of death was filled out. the information was then analyzed using...

Between 1986 and 1995, a pedigree of six Arabs with male pseudohermaphroditism due to 5 alpha reductase-2 deficiency have been identified. All, were raised as girls since birth. At the time of diagnosis, three were post-pubertal, one pubertal and two pre-pubertal. The external genitalia of 'pseudo-vaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias' was identical in these subjects. Although these individuals we...